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Performances include: SOMA Summer BRIC U.N.O. St. Claude Gallery Red Bull Arts New York Interference Archive Maass Gallery - SUNY Purchase Pioneer Works Van Alen Institute Spring Party Van Alen Institute ICA Philadelphia Interference Archive at Silent Barn Art Space New Museum BRIC Museum of Modern Art Nuit Blanche Creative Time |
Another Protest Song: Karaoke with a Message
multimedia; karaoke system and video monitors
2008-ongoing
Another Protest Song: karaoke with a message looks to the karaoke songbook as potential for political enunciation through song.
The November 2008 elections were approaching and we were interested in providing a mediated space in which users might feel comfortable getting on their soapboxes and professing their political interests and dislikes. In the era of American Idol and innumerable karaoke bars, everyone is a singer, and the choice of a song speaks a lot about the performer, especially if that song includes political content. In the situation of protest karaoke, while the song choice might communicate history in the present, it also speaks of a history attached (or even dis-attached but newly considered) to a political situation rather than one consumed primarily as a popular cultural product.
Over a two-day period in September of 2008, as part of the Creative Time project Democracy in America: The National Campaign, we organized a karaoke suite of 'protest' songs and a performance stage in two parks in New York City (Prospect Park, Brooklyn and Corona Park/Flushing Meadows, Queens). For six hours each day, pedestrians, park-goers, cyclists, and the general public sang songs of protest, sober and under the warm sun.
This project was commissioned by Creative Time
for Democracy in America: The National Campaign
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